Data centres designed to run for decades.
Strategic consulting for data centre planning, design, construction and optimisation, from greenfield builds to modernisation.
- Facility design
- Capacity planning
- Power and cooling
- Tier certification
50+ DC projectsThe numbers that decide cost and uptime.
PUE measures how much of your power reaches the IT equipment rather than cooling and overhead. Modern facilities target 1.2 to 1.5, and a lower figure means a lower electricity bill for the life of the site. Tier level sets redundancy — Tier III suits most enterprises, Tier IV where downtime cannot be tolerated at all.
Every layer of the facility.
Facility planning and design
Site selection, raised floor, hot and cold aisle containment, power, cooling and fire suppression for Tier I to IV.
Capacity planning
Power, cooling and space modelled for 3 to 5 years of growth.
Technology architecture
Server, storage and network design: converged, hyper-converged or three-tier.
Power and cooling optimisation
N+1 or 2N power with UPS and generators, efficient cooling for a PUE of 1.2 to 1.5.
Security and compliance
Fencing, biometrics, CCTV and mantraps to ISO 27001, PCI DSS or government standards.
Energy and sustainability
Renewables, heat recovery, LEED planning and carbon reduction.
Beyond the traditional build.
Hybrid cloud integration
Direct Connect, ExpressRoute and Interconnect to public cloud.
Edge data centres
Micro sites of 10 to 50 kW for retail, branches and IoT.
Software-defined infrastructure
VMware, OpenStack or Kubernetes with infrastructure-as-code.
Modular and prefab
Containerised modules cut build time from 18-24 months to 6-12.
Making sure it runs well.
Staffing and skills
NOC, facilities and engineering teams sized for 24/7 operations.
Process design
ITIL-aligned SOPs for maintenance, incidents, change and capacity.
Monitoring systems
DCIM plus Nagios, Zabbix or SolarWinds for real-time visibility.
Maintenance and lifecycle
Preventive schedules and refresh cycles for servers, storage and network.
Business continuity
Runbooks for power, cooling and network failures, with DR testing.
Cost optimisation
Power, cooling and space efficiency, consolidation, colo vs owned.
Questions we hear often
Which data centre tier do I need?
Tier I is 99.671% uptime with no redundancy, Tier II 99.741%, Tier III 99.982% with concurrent maintainability, Tier IV 99.995% with fault tolerance. Most enterprises choose Tier III.
How long does a build take?
Greenfield: 18 to 24 months. Modular: 6 to 12 months. Retrofit: 6 to 9 months. Planning and design alone can take 3 to 6 months.
What is PUE?
Power Usage Effectiveness: total facility power divided by IT power. Modern sites target 1.2 to 1.5. Lower PUE means lower electricity bills.
Build, colocate or cloud?
Build for 1+ MW long-term needs, colocation for 50-500 kW standard needs, cloud for variable workloads. We model TCO for each option.
Often used together
Data Centre Build and Management
From site design to 24/7 operations, 50 kW edge to 5+ MW campuses.
Public and Private Cloud Consulting
Cloud readiness, strategy, architecture and cost optimisation.
Disaster Recovery
Veeam, Acronis and Comet backed DR with NDR and FDR options.
Security Consulting
Risk assessment, compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, DPDP) and security architecture.
Talk to us about Data Centre Consulting
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